Detail of the 1890s Porch of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - Armstrong Street, Ballarat

            The history of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church in Ballarat's Armstrong Street began when a wooden church was constructed on the site in 1857 for the miners of the 1850s Gold Rush.  The wooden building was replaced by the bluestone church seen on Armstrong Street today in 1862.

The present Ebenezer Presbyterian Church was designed by architect Henry Richards Caselli (1816 - 1885) in Lombardic Romanesque style.  Built of bluestone, it features tall windows with paired round headed lights, buttresses and huge brackets.  The porch and gallery were added in the 1880s to cater for an increase in the size of the congregation and are the only additions to the church.  The 1880s porch features bracketted gables, finial, piers, string course and triple windows.  The Ebenezer Church is important architecturally for its interior as well as its exterior, as it has a Classical Revival design that is both distinctive and unusual in Australia.

The Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Hall built to the right of the church was constructed in 1892 and is made of locally produced red brick, which was more fashionable at the time.  It too has been built in Lombardic Romanesque style in sympathy with the church building and features tall arched windows.

The double-storey presbytery, built on the left of the church dates around the 1880s and is also constructed of red brick.  Built in Victorian Classical Freestyle, it has elegant quoining on its corners, large windows upstairs, and prominent bay windows on the ground floor.  The Armstrong Street facade is sheltered from the sun by a verandah and balcony featuring fine cast iron columns and lacework.

The whole complex is surrounded by its 1880s cast iron paling fence.  

Henry Richards Caselli is perhaps best known in Ballarat for the large number of churches in Victoria that he designed, with two Lombardic Romanesque examples in Ballarat, the Ebenezer Presbyterian church, Armstrong Street South between 1862 and 1863 and the Lutheran Church in Doveton Street in 1876.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Ballarat / Ballarat Central (show map)

Taken on: January 14, 2013

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